After all the hype and the secrecy, Stanley Kubrick’s final movie was greeted with a strangely muted reception, but there’s no denying how gorgeous it looks.

Although it’s set in New York, there are only the most fleeting glimpses of the real city, courtesy of a Second Unit.

The ‘Long Island’ mansions were found in the Home Counties, the ‘Greenwich Village’ streets constructed at Pinewood Studio or faked in corners of central London.

Eyes Wide Shut location: the exterior of Victor Ziegler’s mansion: Consulate General of the Republic of Poland, East 37th Street, New York

One of the very few real Big Apple locations is the exterior of the mansion of Victor Ziegler (Tootsie director Sydney Pollack, replacing Harvey
Keitel), which is in fact the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland, East 37th Street at Madison Avenue in the New York.

Most of the ‘Greenwich Village’ street scenes were shot on the elaborately detailed outdoor set at Pinewood (the proliferation of T-junctions is a dead giveaway), but for a few shots, London streets were dressed as New York.

After leaving the apartment of hooker Domino, Dr Bill is stalked by a sinister man as he walks along Hatton Garden, where New York-style payphones were installed between numbers 32 and 38. The stalker, who appears to be across the street, is actually on Worship Street, EC2, just off City Road near Old Street in the City (look out for the real Nicon House, 21 Worship Street, in the background). Berner Street and Eastcastle Street also became ‘Greenwich Village’.

The Royal Suite of the luxurious Lanesborough, 1 Lanesborough Place, SW1, the converted hospital occupying a prestigious spot opposite Hyde Park Corner, is the site of the edgy pool-game meeting between Bill and Ziegler.

Knebworth House (‘Wayne Manor’ in Tim Burton’s Batman) was screentested and rejected, for the masked ‘orgy’ scene. In the end, two separate locations were used.

The huge revolving doors of the new Chelsea and Westminster Hospital complex on Fulham Road, Chelsea, lead into the spacious atrium where Dr Bill goes to look for the unfortunate Amanda Curram (Julienne Davis). The hospital was also where Imogen Stubbs dies in childbirth, leaving Richard E Grant bringing up baby in Jack & Sarah, and also appears in rom-com Sliding Doors.